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'American Idol' recap: San Francisco treats?
Show TrackerWeâre with Steven Tyler, Hollywooooo canât come soon enough for our tastes. Which is good, because thatâs where âAmerican Idolâ is headed Thursday night. The show made its final stop on the way there Wednesday night, pulling... -
Obama takes a day off from diplomatic warnings, praises Algeria, then celebrates the Motown Sound
Top of the TicketDemocrat quicker to praise Algeria for lifting restrictions, than some other countries for imposing them.... -
Gregory Isaacs dies at 59; Jamaican singer pioneered reggae style known as lovers rock
Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican singer who pioneered the style of reggae music known as lovers rock and became one of the genre's major stars in the 1970s, has died. He was 59.
Isaacs died Monday at his home in London, according to his manager, Copeland...Tags: Sam Cooke, Reggae (genre), Bob Marley, Music, Jamaica
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Benjamin Jealous: Mr. Rights
Benjamin Jealous hears it so often that I'm sure he just lets it slide off by now: "You weren't even born when ... " Fill in the blank with your favorite milestone of recent racial history in this country -- when Rosa Parks sat down on the bus, when the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Schools, Family, Justice System
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'Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture' by Alice Echols
Hot Stuff
Disco and the Remaking
of American Culture
Alice Echols
W.W. Norton: 338 pp., $26.95
Recently, I attended a wedding reception during which a 10-year-old boy, to entertain the adults on the dance floor, started making the point-to-the-sky...Tags: Wedding Products and Services, Dining and Drinking, Riots, Genres, Social Issues
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Teddy Pendergrass dies at 59; quintessential R&B boudoir crooner
Teddy Pendergrass, the soul singer who combined hyper-romantic love songs with a virile, sexy stage presence to become the quintessential R&B boudoir crooner before a 1982 car accident left him paralyzed, died Wednesday in his native Philadelphia. He...Tags: Colon, R. Kelly, Whitney Houston, Social Issues, Transportation Accidents
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Jonathan Lethem talks to Jacket Copy about pot, virtual worlds and 'Chronic City'
Jacket CopyJonathan Lethem, bestselling author of "The Fortress of Solitude" and "Motherless Brooklyn," comes to the L.A. Central Library on Tuesday night -- although there are no more tickets available, last-minute seats often open up at the ALOUD series. He'll be.... -
Ernie Harwell dies at 92; longtime Detroit Tigers announcer
Ernie Harwell, the Hall of Fame voice of the Detroit Tigers whose decision to leave the Brooklyn Dodgers' radio booth played a role in the hiring of Vin Scully, died Tuesday. He was 92.
Harwell died at his home in Novi, Mich., the Tigers said. He had...Tags: Radio, National League, Major League Baseball, Employment, Ernie Harwell
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Stagecoach 2010: Room for lots of tastes
Pop & HissAt the desert gathering, pop-driven acts, traditional sounds and fringe performers all have a chance to please an expanded crowd. The old gag about people who brag about loving both kinds of music â country and western â gets a...... -
L.A. Story
Rock stars, Jazzers, Pachucos...they may have grown up somewhere else quaint, like Sandusky, Ohio, or Canada, but they made their mark herelived, created and died here. Music is as much a part of the L.A. legacy as film and television. From the bebop...Tags: Charlton Heston, Television, National Basketball Association, Robert Plant, Tommy Dorsey
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'First Wives Club' is forming in San Diego
Everybody here? This afternoon's run-through of the new musical "The First Wives Club" -- based on the 1996 movie and Olivia Goldsmith's 1992 novel -- is about to begin in a rehearsal room at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre.
Everybody isn't. "Stop! Where...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, The Supremes (music group), Bette Midler, Broadway Theater
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Spin City
If Guitar Hero is the natural progression for anyone who ever shamelessly emulated Joe Perry with an imaginary ax, then Activisions next gig, DJ Hero, will let anyone who ever did a song mix channel his or her inner spinmaster.
Activision has kept its...Tags: Eminem, Joe Perry, Aerosmith (music group), Entertainment, Activision Blizzard, Inc.
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